featured blogs
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I like the idea of featured blogs for category tags, but am curious as to how they work. What are the criteria/requirements for featured blogs? Are they machine generated or person selected? How much (if any) importance do metrics such as traffic, number of posts, spider-able links etc. have when considering featured blogs?
namaste,
liquidquick -
Featured blogs? You mean the top blogs of the day? I think I read it’s not about traffic but a combination of page views and traffic and others mixed together. I think. Or are you talking about something different?
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Nosy, take a look at the Tag Pages. I think the featured blog is just the last blog that made a Post in that category. For example, you see it in the Kim Possible category.
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I don’t do tags. lol It already takes me so long doing what I do. If I spent time on tags, my head would explode.
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If it is just the last posted in that category, “featured” seems misleading. “Oh, Ma! I’m the featured blog today…no wait, actually, just the last person who wrote anything here. “
Does sound good, though, I suppose. Hmmm.
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It is definately not the latest post.
I just checked one tag where I am often featured and there are three posts done more recently than mine yet I am still featured.
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You are obviously the best writer. You’d think it would need to have something to do with hits or something or it doesn’t make much sense to have it. Though it’s cool to see your name in lights, I would agree.
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Actually it’s not last posted. I just noted that looking at a Tag for a spammer that i just caught. (That’s why I’m not providing the link)
I’m wondering if maybe they’re tying it into the botd records and considering traffic.
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after doing some experimenting, it seems that the blog with the greatest number of posts for any given tag is the ‘featured’ blog. the featured blog for ‘haiku’ never changed, up until I wrote one more haiku than previous blog had; after which my blog became ‘featured’. a day or so later, someone surpassed my number, and they became ‘featured’. after which I just had to write a whole bunch of crap in order to regain the spot. seems to be quantity regardless of quality, I’m afraid…
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@liquidquic
Sheesh I like haiku so I’m sorry you felt pressured to write “a whole bunch of crap in order to regain the spot”. I’m wondering was that the wisest choice you could have made? And I’m thinking: To thine own self be true. :) -
to be honest, if I really thought my work was crap I would not publish it at all. but public self-deprecation has its uses; anyone interested up to this point would most likely visit the site to form their own opinion. ‘crap or not? lets go see…’ a PR stunt, if you will, with the added benefit of illustrating my point about the relationship between featured blog status and quantity of posts.
in terms of my own work, there are certainly individual posts that I favor (typically, the more serious ones), and others that I write solely for my own amusement. so continuing along the train of thought that you brought up: to which of my selves should I be true?
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Got to disagree; the moral tone of your actions has a larger influence on whether or not people are going to click on your blog than pretend self-deprecation.
I like haiku, and I’m no stranger to gaming hits, but I didn’t go, because it seems so nasty to try to seize control of haiku rankings. I mean, come on!
Be true to the self that acts honestly. Real humility is attractive. Bogus anything is not. I have learned over and over, sometimes to my pain, that an honest impulse, no matter what it is, has more of a real effect in the world than one done selfconsciously, without real meaning.
Are you the sort to Machiavelli on behalf of your poetry, or aren’t you? Only you can tell me, and actions speak louder than words.
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that’s an interesting phrasing; ‘machiavelli on behalf of your poetry’. shame its a bit too long for haiku verse ;).
I don’t particularly put as high a moral weight on the issue as others seem to, partly because the whole notion of a (mostly) humorous haiku blog was for my own personal amusement and enjoyment. I’m not really concerned with garnering an audience (although if someone else gets a kick from it, hey, all the better). And partly because a 10-20 hit-a-day fluff blog doesn’t, in my opinion, warrant that much ethical consideration. it wasn’t intended to be a serious showcase of my ‘art’, more an excercise to see if i can reduce my life experiences down to a grouping of short syllables.
If this were a business venture, or perhaps an attempt to blog about something that actually has broad-appeal meaning to many people, it would be a different story. And, honestly, part of what is amusing me at this particular moment is figuring out how the featured blogs of wordpress.com works and how the system can potentially be tinkered with. I’m hesitant to take the issues of gaming hits (this isn’t a contest…) and machiavelling my poetry too seriously because the blog in general and my above comments in particular were never meant to be a serious treatise on my moral outlook on life, the universe, and everything.
But, to answer your question… if it WERE important enough, if I WAS seriously into haiku to the point where I would be willing to ‘sabotage the system’, or even if this WERE something I was doing as a professional source of income then the answer is yes, I would be willing to machiavelli on behalf of my poetry. But it probably wouldn’t be any fun doing it, and I would get no amusement or enjoyment from the act… so what would be the point?
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Well, I’m with raincoaster for sure – for sure. Your explanations plus your inflated opinion of yourself, your writing and what you’d stoop to using your supposed high intelligence level for fail to impress me. In fact when reading your blah, blah, blah above what came to mind was the stench of 3 day old fish that never made it to the icebox when long ago a former narcissictic roommate who was determined to “win” a poetry competition at all costs slept with three of the juges on three successive evenings. As it’s a bad memory I’m sure why you’ll understand why I most definitely will not be reading your strategetically crafted “fluff and puff”.
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I think, too there are all the other haiku artists out there whom such a tactic would be shoving aside. It matters to them. The poetry itself AND earned honours matter to them. Simple respect for other people dictates no solipsistic gaming of the system.
And believe me, as I have seen a thousand times, it comes back to bite you in the ass. It ALWAYS does.
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thank you both for inspiration-
the way you see me
is not the way i see me
truth lies in betweenlike i said, i write haiku because i enjoy doing it.
getting involved in an internet pissing contest is not a
productive or enjoyable use of my time. best of luck to both
of you with your respective blogs.namaste,
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